[hey dudes, I had to move and some other stuff, the shows page will be filled out soon! Also tell us about your show (or one we missed) on our contact page!]
Thursday – August 26, 2010
Swingin Utters, The Mezingers, The A-Gang ($14) @ Smalls
Wooden Birds, Dan Mangan ($8) @ Pike Room
Casiokids, Light Pollution ($8) @ Magic Stick
Friday – August 27, 2010
Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program, Their Teeth Will Be Of Lions, Rogue Satellites, Pink Lightning @ Belmont
Joneskeeper, Shotgun Bungalow
@ Paychecks Lounge
The Civil Wars, Madi Diaz, Joe Hertler, Jeff Pianki, The Deming Sisters ($12) @ Pike Room
Royal Hoax (CD RELEASE Party) ($15) @ Eagle Theater
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Teenage Bottlerocket, the Flatliners @ St. Andrews Hall
The High Strung @ New Center Park
The Prime Ministers Fidrych Sedna (ex-Chatham, Lisboa) @ Smalls
Roots Vibrations (9pm $5) @ Alvins
Phantasmagoria, Jonathan Zott, Ande Troit, Button Eyes (9pm, $5) @ Vernors Room
The Muggs (video Release), The Crooks, The Beggars ($5, 10pm) @ Cadieux Cafe
Saturday – August 28, 2010
Legendary Creatures, Body Holographic, Robin Goodfellow @ Lager House
Spitting Nickels, The Crooks, KGB @ The New Way Bar
Riot Fest: Mister, Detroit CYDI, RenCen, House Phone + more @ 5E Gallery
Motorcityblog Lounge at People’s Art Festival (12pm): Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, Darling Imperial, Forget, Marco Polio & The New Vaccines, The Blue Squares, The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre, Devilfish, Le Ren
@ Russell Industrial Center
Liazon (CD RELEASE PARTY) @ Paychecks Lounge
Progress Report, Exchange Bureau, Dial 81 & 2040, Frankie Banks and Quelle as Team Social ($7) @ Majestic Cafe
Xavier Rudd, Izintaba ($20) @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Noir Leather’s Hellbound @ Smalls
Ted Raimi’s Playing Dead web series with: Troy Gregory, Lightning Love (7pm, $12) @ Detroit Institute of Arts
Odu Afrobeat Orchestra @ Alvins
Sunday – August 29, 2010
Stereo Total ($14) @ Magic Stick
Twin Sister, Memoryhouse ($10) @ Majestic Cafe
Iszoloscope, Ad.ver.sary, DJ Meta, DJ Saint @ Smalls
DJ Razorblade Collie Park Music Artist Search @ Alvins
Spencer Bell was a Michigan native and well loved musician who passed of adrenal cancer in 2006. Members of his previous band The Stevadores, went on to form 100 Monkeys, a band Rolling Stone called one of the five bands to watch in 2010 (if that doesn’t make them hot enough, member Jackson Rathbone plays a vampire in Twilight . 100 Monkeys (and the Steveadores) will be preforming along with Tin Tin Can, The Kissing Club, and EVRO in a charity event to raise money and awareness of adrenal cancer.
There’s going to be two shows, 2pm and 8pm on Saturday, August 28th at Callahan’s in Auburn Hills. Both shows SOLD OUT within a few days of tickets being available. Due to the high demand there’s going to be a webcast WATCH IT HERE LIVE.
★Spencer Bell Memorial site
and a 100 Monkey’s video:
Night three of Fucking Awesome Fest 2010 is now in the books. And even though for a moment last night kinda felt like a revival of the 2004 Garage Rock Revival with members of the Von Bondies, The Go, White Stripes, Back in Spades, The Sights and Greenhornes all under one roof, I still thoroughly enjoyed almost every band I saw.
The Hound Below: like I said yesterday, I’m really digging these guys and gal. It’s like The Pixies meets Johnny Cash with a little touch of Elvis. They’re might have been a little vocal pushing by Jason Stollsteimer at times but so what, I dug it.
Illy Mack: I”m sorry, but I couldn’t really get into this band (maybe it was the gimmicks). Though coming back through form the Alley Deck, I noticed they had a rapper on stage with them and thought they seemed a lot more interesting at that point.
Friendly Foes: Being that this was their last show ever, I saw that they were giving away the rest of their merch (there was still a suitcase of it left during Juiceboxx’s set) . I also saw that the Majestic Cafe was packed, heard them play “Walk Home In The Dark” and noticed lots of their friends/fans singing along.
Millions of Brazilians: The girls I was with were really sad to see axe Derek was replaced with Augie of The Hard Lessons (maybe that’s why they played on the floor instead of the actual side stage). They sounded intense, but I couldn’t tell much sonic difference with the 33% new lineup except that Augie’s guitar carried much more weight in the house mix then Derek’s normal had. Also, the new tunes sound cool and I dug The Walkmen cover of “The Rat” (again it felt like 2004).
Conspiracy of Owls: These cats are fronted by Bobby Harlow and John Krautner of The Go. They also have five other dudes on stage with them from various groups around town. They’ve got a cool retro rock sound form the late sixties early seventies. All and all, not bad. However, when I went downstairs to hit up Juiceboox I saw a bachelorette party heading up the stairs to the Magic Stick, not really sure if they were lost or just devoted Conspiracy of Owls followers?
Juiceboxx: What a trip! I mean a skinny Milwaukee white rapper telling you to “Sweat, Sweat” and saying “Detroit” seventy times throughout his set can always make ya smile. I do still think someone needs to buy that boy a cheeseburger.
The Greenhornes: played literally every cool song they have; ”Lies”, “Can’t Stand It”, “Hard Times”… if they had a greatest hits album, this performance would be the benchmark. Their merch booth staff seemed to really love it, and I did too.
Sunday: If you missed the last three nights you got one more evening to check out the festival. Go tonight and catch some of the sets from 800beloved, Fur, Dark City and Autolux… you’ll be glad you did.
So last night was evening two of this year’s four night Fucking Awesome Fest at the Majestic Complex. Here are my thoughts, wants [Continue Reading...]
Johnny Knoxville talks to the Dirtbombs and others about Detroit:
watch the full doc online for free started on August 30th PalladiumBoots.com
Fuck Woodward!
Thursday – August 19, 2010
Fucking Awesome Fest: The Silent Years, Prussia, The Frustrations, Silverghost, Lettercamp, Kommie Kilpatrick, Marco Polio and the New Vaccines, [Continue Reading...]
Rock and Roll is an attitude, and the Ruiners are very Rock and Roll.
The new album, called “Happy Birthday Bitch” is a sort of [Continue Reading...]
On September 28th, Electric Six will be releasing their 7th studio album Zodiac. This marks the fifth straight year that the band has released [Continue Reading...]
Thursday – August 12, 2010
Outrageous Cherry, Citizen Smile (FREE) @ Whitney
The Questions, All Girl Boys Choir @ Lager House
Lydia, Analog Rebellion, River City Extension [Continue Reading...]
Microfiche Records in Nashville is re-issuing Outrageous Cherry’s self titled debut album on limited edition vinyl LP!
From the Microfiche
Records website
It’s a great pleasure that [Continue Reading...]
Desktop is releasing their second EP, appropriately named Desktop 2. It’s going to hit itunes, amazon and every other digital retailer on [Continue Reading...]